The new chair of Hong Kong’s leading media professional group says she lost her job at The Wall Street Journal after she refused her supervisor’s request to withdraw from the election for the leadership post
Selina Cheng, a former reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and newly elected chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association speaks to media in Hong Kong on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Cheng said she lost her job at The Wall Street Journal after she refused her supervisor’s request to withdraw from the election for the leadership post.
“I am appalled that the first press conference I'm giving as HKJA's new chair is to announce that I was fired for taking up this position in a press union,” said Cheng, who was elected as the new chair in June. Hong Kong journalists work in a narrowing space after drastic political changes in the city that was once seen as a bastion of media freedom in Asia.
In June, Secretary for Security Chris Tang said the association lacks legitimacy and accused it of having stood with the protesters against the 2020 law.
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